It claims to be a response to the horrific Gosnell clinic — but Kermit Gosnell's crimes don't represent the women's reproductive health community. Said House speaker John Boehner (R-OH): "Listen, after this Kermit Gosnell trial and some of the horrific acts that were going on, the vast majority of the American people believe in the substance of this bill, and so do I." To make the Gosnell trial the face of all abortion in America is completely unfair — it's basically like saying Cameron Crowe should never be allowed to make another movie because he made Elizabethtown. Most Planned Parenthood-sanctioned clinics are clean and patients leave with minimal or no complications.

Furthermore, using that tragedy to further their agenda belittles the lives that were lost at Gosnell and his employees' hands. Many of the women who went to Gosnell did so because they had nowhere else to go, thanks to the increasing restrictions on abortion access — something these Republicans don't seem to consider at all.

The Judiciary Committee responsible for the legislation features not a single woman, and 88 percent of the house is comprised of white males.

The exemption in the case of sexual assault was tacked on as a last-minute addendum. It's clear that the high rate of sexual assaults isn't at the forefront of their minds.

This year's Senate elections will vacate two pro-choice seats. Even though the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act is unlikely to make it to the President's desk this go-round, it's entirely possible that won't be the case if more anti-choice Senators are voted in.